Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)

["Kevin Lawton" <kepla@btinternet.com>]

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| "Progress" really depends on where you're standing.  If you're a
| highly trained, talented developer then you might feel threatened by
| this trend to "lower the bar".  If you're the VP of Engineering at
| some start-up, you might think it's a great step forward.
|
| My advice: don't forget how to code in assembly and how to read core
| dumps, but spend a few hours a month learning the new tools, too.

Circumstances force me to agree with you to the extent that I have recently
been training in Java. Problem is: it doesn't seem to fit in my procedural
assembler-oriented brain !   :-)
Kevin.